MAC Venomous Villains Maleficent Swatches & Review

MAC Venomous Villains limited edition collection for fall 2010 is a whopper! It contains a huge variety of products in four separate mini-collections: Cruella de Vil, Maleficent, Evil Queen and Dr. Facilier.

Venomous Villains is a collaboration MAC did with Disney. They wanted to celebrate the dark side that each of us has deep down, but in a fun glamorous way.

The packaging obviously is the first thing that you will notice and possibly just love. I know I did. If this had been something like “The Disney/MAC Fairy Princess Collection” I think I wouldn’t have liked it HALF as much as this. When I think of the words “Venomous” and “Villains” the kind of colors I like (i.e. darker ) come to mind.

Back to the packaging. It’s all shiny black with pictures imprinted on each piece of the evil character. I am SOOO pleased they didn’t use stickers, because that just seem cheap and they always peel off.

Today I’ve got pics and some swatches of the Maleficent collection.

Maleficent contains the following products in it’s collection, most of which I have:

Mineralize Eye Shadow in My Dark Magic and She Who Dares

Lipstick in Violetta and Dark Deed

Lipglass in Revenge Is Sweet and Wrong Spell

Beauty Powder in Briar Rose

Nail Lacquer in Bad Fairy, Formidable! and Mean & Green

As previously mentioned, I sprained my ankle and am basically in bed for the next week, so I was unable to get nail swatches for now. Sorry! I will be posting them as soon as I am up and about though.

L to R: Formidable, Bad Fairy, Mean & Green

L to R: Formidable, Bad Fairy, Mean & Green

L to R: She Who Dares, My Dark Magic

She Who Dares

She Who Dares

She Who Dares is a deep navy with blue pearl and a deep forest green with lime green pearl

My Dark Magic

My Dark Magic is a deep pink with pink pearl and deep plum with purple pearl

My Dark Magic

L to R: She Who Dares, My Dark Magic (dry)

L to R: She Who Dares, My Dark Magic (wet)

L to R: She Who Dares, My Dark Magic (dry then wet)

These are both really gorgeous colors as far as I’m concerned wet or dry. Of course when you apply them wet they are so much more saturated and pretty.

Lipstick

Violetta

Dark Deed

L to R: Violetta, Dark Deed

Violetta is a super bright violet purple. This color is on their MAC Pro site also and I’ve been wanting it for a long time. I am happy to have it with the special packaging now!

Revenge Is Sweet

Wrong Spell

L to R: Revenge Is Sweet, Wrong Spell

Briar Rose

Briar Rose

Briar Rose

Briar Rose (NC 20 skin)

Briar Rose is a pale pink with hints of violet. It’s called a beauty powder but to me it’s a blush. It’s a really pretty color, especially on fair gals such as myself.

Overall:

Loving it! I love not only the packaging, but the colors inside, which is more important! There is nothing here I am disappointed with in any way. I have heard a couple of the nail polishes are dupes for some of Orly’s Cosmic FX collection, but I haven’t swatched them. Will keep you posted!

For pricing here goes:

Mineralize Eye Shadows are $21.00

Lipsticks are $15.50

Lipglass’s are $15.50

Beauty Powder is $25.00

Nail Lacquer’s are $13.00

These are available on the MAC Pro site now (or if you don’t have a Pro membership, you can order them on the phone) and will be in stores on September 30th in North America.

I was wanting those lacquers for so long and then the Orly dupes came out….I might just get them anyway. Is that dumb? I NEED to get Bad Fairy for sure and those shadows and the Dark Deed lipstick and… BTW I was frightened of Maleficent as a child.

Oh my, eye shadows look so nice!! I must get them, I love the package, I agree with you, it’s totally awesome. 🙂 And yeah, according to bottles, Green&Mean and Formidable! are dupes of Space Cadet and Galaxy Girl. And I mean 100% dupes. But one can’t be sure untill polish goes on nails, as usual. 🙂 I hope you’ll review the other mini collections too and that your ankle is getting better. 🙂Ulmiel´s last post…MAC Venomous Villains vs Orly Cosmic FX comparison – the bottles

I went to my local store this week and preordered all the polishes — they let me go into the back and see them where they are waiting for their release date — gorgeous!
Hope you’re feeling better soon.

Ya know, I placed my orders for the polish & I wasnt going to do it, but than you see the hype online & your brain plays games.
Now I keep going back on the site because I’m wanting the eye shadows. Are you going to use them as eye liners? Thats the only reason I would get them. I dont know what to do!

It’s going to take a lot of time to get here, in Brasil. I think Orly Cosmix will arrive before. I like Orly and Space Cadet is in my already ordered nail polishe’s list.
Unfortunately MAC didn’t stamp the villains on the bottle as it did with Hello Kitty – On The Prowl… If they did I would buy the MAC one.
By the way, I have a “feeling” that the Orly’s Space Cadet will be the dupest nail polish of the season.
Have a nice week.

I keep going back and forth on this collection. I, too, wish the polish bottles had something thematic going on with them. I might get the Bad Fairy, but it seems similar to a new one from the OPI Burlesque, so I might not (it will probably sell out before I make up my mind). I want the Violetta lipstick, too, but that’s it. I’ve had the MAC Mineralized eyeshadows before and they’re a little to sparkly with lots of fallout for my taste. I do LOVE the colors, though, I wish I could make the formula work. Interested to know how they work for you!

I already ordered the polishes, couldn’t resist, had to be done.
Those eye shadows look amazing wet! Sadly I can’t pull off a dark eye, I always feel I look like a hooker, even though I admire the look on others. Maybe I’m just not adventurous enough.
That lipstick looks fantastic too. I can’t wait to see it on your lips (you and I have very similar coloring), so pucker up and give us a kiss when you get a chance!

So sorry to hear about your ankle, I can truly relate. In the past 5 years I have:
1) Kicked something so hard my pinkie toenail came off.
2) Gotten dragged down by my dogs and messed up and skinned my knee pretty severely.
3) Fallen on lava rock (aka: shards of glass) and cut up half of my leg, ah scars…
4) Had a severe ankle sprain (darn Disneyland and that gopher hole or whatever it was!)
and finally,
5) Broke my ankle by missing 1 (yes, 1) step, shattering one of the bones.
All of this was involving my left leg/foot. I figure the only other thing I can do to it is somehow accidentally get the darn thing cut off. Having read all of that I would appear to be a complete klutz, so I’d like to point out that I hadn’t fallen down once since I had my cast removed (almost 2 years!) until my little ‘moving speed bump’ tripped me the other day (Buster, a Beagle).
On that note, it occurs to me that I wrote a lot. I’m sick, have no voice, so I haven’t been able to talk to anyone much for 2 days, I must be lonely. Just wanted you to know that I feel your pain and I hope you’re up and running soon!

Bad Fairy is they only on I’m interested in, since I already own the Orly dupes. I was able to put Bad Fairy on hold at the Macy’s MAC counter. When I went yesterday they said lots of people are reserving theirs and they only had 7 of each polish left.

I wish I could wear those eye shadows! I really like the Maleficent colors! I bought Bad Fairy and the Revenge is Sweet lipglass. I am considering going back for the Briar Rose beauty powder. Thank you for the great swatches! 🙂

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